I get too tight I come undone
It's the first sunny weekend we've had in ages. In fact it's the first weekend we've had for a while in which ones mind hasn't immediately turned to Revelations 12:15 or wondered if perhaps the marketing push for Evan Almighty might not have gone a leeeetle too far.
And yet I'm inside, hacking. Partly because last night ate at a restaurant that serves burritos the size of your head so I'm feeling kind of sluggish this morning but mostly because I'm stupid.
Anyway, I wrote a tool to back up your Vox last week but, it occurred to me that not everyone has the will or way to download a bunch of Perl modules, install them and then run the script.
So I've been nice and written VoxSlurp which is neither Web2.0 -ey or Ajaxy but should make it easy for you to download all your public posts as an Mbox file (which most mail readers will understand - under Outlook do 'File -> Import -> Internet Mail and Addresses -> Eudora and then navigate to the mbox file you've just downloaded).
Ain't I nice.
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I thought it funny that you would think that we all have perl modules just lying around.....
*looks through desk drawers, make up case and trunk for perl modules........*
Thanks for making this - it is handy indeed!
*kotc*
If I understand this well ( I have to confess that due to age, medication and general life stuff, I am completely computer iliterate), this is a tool which will download all my Vox into my computer?
How useful this is at the moment is something else entirely - at the moment there's no way to take the backup and put it back into Vox but maybe that will happen in the future.
Ahhh ok, I ll get it....
(and I'm going to abuse a bit of your expertise, if you dont mind...)
so, we cant, at the moment, if we back up, put it back in Vox, but it ll be here in my hard disk, so, if my daughter wants to read it in the future, she could?
Sorry to bother you with this... :(
You're dead right. At the moment your daughter could read it in the future using any mail reader than can import Mbox files (which most can somehow).
Sooner or later I'll write something that can take those files and put them back into Vox. It's currently possible to do that but would involve you giving me your password or me writing an application similar to LifeBlog or the Windows XP uploader which, currently, I haven't got time to do.
And don't worry about bothering me - I'm just happy someone thinks it's useful.